All of a Twitter
Google has been handing out free Nexus S handsets to winners of its Twitter-based competition, which closes on 16 December.
The competition, which is refreshed daily on Google's Nexus S Twitter account, offers entrants the chance to bag a handset if they win the puzzle of the day.
Entrants have to earn their prize and puzzles have so far included a photo competition and a haiku poetry contest. Indeed, today's conundrum is set to be coding-based.
The Tweet said: "Special next puzzle preview: brush up your Android 2.3 SDK knowledge: this one's for coders."
UK entrants are eligible but there is only one entry allowed per day. Interested Tweeple have to reply the competition tweet, including @googlenexus and puzzles will appear daily until the 16 December deadline at 9am PST.
Google said: "Up to ten winning entries will receive a Nexus S phone" but the odds obviously depend on how many people enter the contest.
In related news, the Prime Minister has begged Twitter to set up shop in the capital, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Apparently David Cameron was joined by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who entertained Twitter execs at Downing Street last week in a bid to persuade Twitter's head of international strategy, Katie Jacobs Stanton, that London is the ideal location for Twitter's European HQ.
The group were also believed to have been joined by advertising executives plus a handful of important technology partners.
It was reported that a Number 10 spokesman said the government is keen that Twitter's first office outside of the US is based in London instead of another European city. "All that matters is that they come to London," he reportedly said.
After the meeting, Stanton reportedly tweeted: "Hugely impressed with PM Cameron @MayorOfLondon & the @Number10gov teams," but it remains to be seen whether the PM's charm offensive has paid dividends.
It would appear that Cameron's enthusiasm for the micro-blogging site is relatively new-found as he has previously reportedly said: "The trouble with Twitter, the instantness of it - too many twits might make a twat."
A Twitter spokesman told the newspaper: "We are considering London and other European locations to create an initial and small presence in 2011."
